Arguements for Hugh Hefner to be considered the world's first true male feminist

hugh hefner isn't editing present day playboy from beyond the grave btw

all these posts since the revive, apart from my brilliant ones, are among the dumbest things on ilm, which is saying something

What was even the impetus for the thread revival
I mean I share Ross’ taste in Viceland shows so I don’t want to rag on him but was he just, like, really feeling Playboy atm and decided to see what ILX had to say on the subject

Hugh Hefner helped mainstream pornography, albeit in a very light form, and I’m not sure that’s been good for the culture in the long run

He commodifed the sexual revolution more than he promoted it. The vision of sexuality his magazine promoted wasn’t really egalitarian

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Idk what that meansssss

preciado's /pornotopia/ is a valuable contemporary critique of hef, and would have been good to hurl at calum's dumb OP here. but i already hyped it up in this more viable hefner thread: Does anyone know how one goes about embarking on a career as "Hugh Hefner"?

to me hef is really a rolling maleness/masculinity avatar. playboy was about a certain image of the cultured and sophisticated man - i don't even know if it was a false image, hef might well have been like that, but playboy certainly perpetuated the lie that most men are like that, and that very airbrushed, glamorous take on sexuality. i don't think all male sexuality is hustler sexuality, meat-grinder porn or whatever, but in 2018 the playboy approach strikes me as a bit of a blind alley; i find the present "customs"-based porn subculture far more interesting.